Hi all.

Im sure you have all been asked this a dozen times or more but can anybody give me some paint reference numbers (or mix ratios) for spraying UK armour in the correct shades for both Desert Storm and Op Telic as in my opinion, looking at reference photos from both conflicts, there seems to be some variance between the two colour schemes. Please can somebody point me in the right direction.

Thanks Guys/Girls

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The British Army changed its desert colour completely between Op Granby (1991) and Telic (2003).

The MM Gulf Armor Stone colour represents the 1991 shade, not the vivid yellow of 2003 (of course there were a wide variety of 'sand' shades on other vehicles as always). The Osprey Modelling book on the Challenger suggests the following mixes using Tamiya paints

Op Granby (1991) XF59 x 4 + XF57 x 1 + XF19 x 1

Op Telic (2003) XF60 x 3 + XF3 x 1

David

IIRC Xtracolour do the Op Granby colour too.

Really appreciate that, will give that a try this weekend.

Thanks.

Thanks for this info I've got a 1/72 Trumpeter AS-90 i want to do in Op Telic and the Tamiya Buff looked a bit too light to me. looks like I'll be mixing some up tonight.

Be aware that most colours have been painted over the bronze green (WOLF, Oshkosh, etc) and green and black - to varying extents and standards and that many vehicles aren't re-painted at all.

Replacement items (AFV road wheels, doors, wings etc) come factory painted in bronze green too and are rarely if ever re-painted.

New (not re-roled NI) Snatch Landrovers came factory painted in sand and most RAF (including RAF Regiment WMIKs) are properly sprayed in RAF sand (which has a distinctly pink tinge).

this is mm british gulf light stone....its a bit blury but should give you an idea.....its way more yellow then the us sand